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Foster City, CA-based EFI cited strong US sales as well as continued demand for its Fiery controllers as it reported Q1 income of $8.2m (Q1 2012: $6.2m) on a 7% revenue rise to $171.4m.

Kodak announced this week it has agreed to sell assets from its Document Imaging business to office equipment maker Brother Industries in a cash deal worth $210m (137m).

EFI's SmartSign Analytics (SSA) tool for monitoring and analysing the consumer response to individual signs could be "a licence to print money" for early adopters from the signange sector.

Less than six months after it was acquired by private equity firm American Industrial Partners (AIP), Presstek is going through a restructuring that includes a number of redundancies.

The board of the US Postal Service (USPS) announced this week that it has directed US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe not to go ahead with plans to end Saturday delivery this August.

Following a successful event in London last November, Monotype is bringing the Pencil to Pixel exhibition to New York so that US-based font fanatics and type devotees can get an up close look at rare...

Louis Werneke, founder of Werneke Ink Company, a "key facet" of Flint Group since the turn of the century, has died.

Agfa has ceased to develop its flagship flatbed inkjet press, the M-Press, which was originally developed as a joint venture with screen-print press manufacturer Thieme.

North Plains has launched the first two products to use its new ConnectR technology, for clients of its Xinet production asset management system (formerly Xinet WebNative).

EFI has unveiled SmartSign Analytics (SSA), a system that automatically captures and analyses signage viewership and engagement data.

Xerox has launched the iGen4 Diamond, an upgrade to the iGen4 cut-sheet colour digital press, which improves uptime and productivity.

Goss International will simplify its organisational structure, reorganise its European operations and push into new markets, according to an internal memo from new chief executive Rick Nichols.